Mastigodryas boddaerti (Sentzen, 1796)

Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano & Marques, Otavio A. V., 2014, Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 3863 (1), pp. 1-93 : 32

Mastigodryas boddaerti (Sentzen, 1796)

(Figs. 12.4 and 25.2)

It was recorded only in states of Piauí (Sete Cidades National Park) and Ceará (Ibiapaba-Araripe Plateau). Thus, it was registered in both high (775 m elevation) and low (60 m elevation) areas in a relatively restricted area of the northwestern portion of the Caatinga, close to the Cerrado contacts. It also occurs in Amazon Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal ( Martins & Oliveira 1998; Marques et al. 2005; Nogueira et al. 2010). In the Cerrado it is found mainly along gallery forest areas (Nogueira et al. 2011). It was recorded in a highland relictual forest area ( Nascimento & Lima-Verde 1989; Loebmann & Haddad 2010; Montingelli et al. 2011) inside the Caatinga, and was also found in typical cerrado vegetation in Sete Cidades National Park ( Rocha & Prudente 2010). It has terrestrial habits, is diurnal, and feeds on vertebrates ( Marques et al. 2005).